Uploaded February 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Watch this week’s Halito from High Country News. Brian Oaster rounds up some of our news stories from this past week. Oaster is a staff writer and a member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. “Halito” is the Choctaw greeting for hello.
What’s getting more expensive? Everything but grazing fees.
By Kylie Mohr
hcn.org/articles/south-public-lands-whats-getting-more-expensive-everything-but-grazing-fees
The first answer for food insecurity: data sovereignty
By Brian Oaster
hcn.org/articles/indigenous-affairs-food-the-first-answer-for-food-insecurity-data-sovereignty
The Supreme Court is set to weigh in on the Clean Water Act’s reach
By Jonathan Thompson
hcn.org/articles/water-the-supreme-court-is-set-to-weigh-in-on-the-clean-water-acts-reach
High Country News is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) independent media organization that covers environmental news and other important issues and stories that define the Western U.S. Through insightful, in-depth journalism, it strives to inform and inspire people to act on behalf of the West's diverse natural and human communities.
Watch this week’s Halito from High Country News. Brian Oaster rounds up some of our news stories from this past week. Oaster is a staff writer and a member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. “Halito” is the Choctaw greeting for hello.
What’s getting more expensive? Everything but grazing fees.
By Kylie Mohr
hcn.org/articles/south-public-lands-whats-getting-more-expensive-everything-but-grazing-fees
The first answer for food insecurity: data sovereignty
By Brian Oaster
hcn.org/articles/indigenous-affairs-food-the-first-answer-for-food-insecurity-data-sovereignty
The Supreme Court is set to weigh in on the Clean Water Act’s reach
By Jonathan Thompson
hcn.org/articles/water-the-supreme-court-is-set-to-weigh-in-on-the-clean-water-acts-reach
High Country News is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) independent media organization that covers environmental news and other important issues and stories that define the Western U.S. Through insightful, in-depth journalism, it strives to inform and inspire people to act on behalf of the West's diverse natural and human communities.










